Hong Kong, April 13 -- The global aviation landscape is being changed, probably irrevocably by the COVID-19 pandemic. Airlines are struggling to negotiate the worst crisis in aviation's history and Asia-Pacific carriers are the suffering the most damage from the pandemic. The region's airlines, making money in 2020 is no longer a prospect. Survival is the name of the game. Associate editor and chief correspondent, Tom Ballantyne, looks at the crisis and its implications.
"For airlines, it's apocalypse now." These were the words of International Air Transport Association director general and CEO, Alexandre de Juniac as he pondered the financial bloodbath confronting the association's 290 member airlines brought on by the random destruction ...